Logic exercise:
If a piece of Swiss cheese has many holes, more cheese, more holes.
If each hole occupies the place of the cheese, more holes, less cheese. If more cheese, more holes and more holes, less cheese. Therefore, more cheese, less cheese!
Hmm, it gave me hunger... [/SIZE]Carpe Omnium

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Hi. I've always used Snappy Driver Installer (I believe this is the russian version) and never seemed to have any issue with it. Is it "bad" ? Does it have any malware I'm not aware of ? And why are those softwares' names so similar ? Like, is one the fork of the other ?
I'm just trying to understand the deal here.

Hi. I've always used Snappy Driver Install (I believe this is the russian version) and never seemed to have any issue with it. Is it "bad" ? Does it have any malware I'm not aware of ? And why are those softwares' names so similar ? Like, is one the fork of the other ?
I'm just trying to understand the deal here.

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(Most likelyl nothing to do with this build), but several years ago, particular had caused my clients very expensive laptop to burn mobo (repair has not been viable), there was (possibly, with no bad intensions) included within driver package malware, that caused vurneability- potential pc takeover injection - aka back door.
Having tested on several machines and had unsuccessful driver configurations, also several security issues- never even tested it again, hence:
Possibly all negative issues has been solved...

Some comments from the developer Glenn Delahoy regard the use of SDIo or when you encounter a "glitch" like a not working mouse and/or keyboard after updating drivers. I think they're very important:

Not a glitch in SDIO, that's just the nature of device drivers. They're an odd breed. Don't assume that newer is better. Some drivers are very specific to the machine. A newer driver not issued by the OEM may break stuff. As a tech, you should think it through before updating everything. Be prepared to roll back if it breaks. SDIO often presents a bunch of alternatives to it's preferred driver so you can experiment with different versions of the driver and sometimes you'll find an older version that works where a newer one fails.

There's a whole back story with the USB 3.0 thing. It amounts to the need to update the whole USB chain at the same or it will all break. But really, if it's working then leave it alone.

I've developed a process when updating machines: with pre win10, install the missing drivers and possibly update others to a "better more optimal" driver. With win10 you would let Windows install it's own drivers or if it can't get the network running then install enough drivers to get it online then let Windows do the rest. When it's done, go ahead and install any missing drivers.

I seldom install "newer" drivers now unless something is not working or I'm prepared to spend a long time futzing about endlessly on the off-chance that it works a little better.

Automation: You can't live without it but you still have to be very aware of what's going on so you can pick up the pieces when it all goes to s**t!

Drivers are more on the esoteric end of things, it's the kind of thing you learn over time and usually the hard way when things go pear shaped.

SDIO can make you look like the total hero. Sometimes it takes more work, oh well!